Hypertext Webster Gateway: "freakish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Freakish \Freak"ish\, a.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was
the more freakish of the two. --L'Estrange.
Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
--Pope.
-- {Freak"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Freak"ish*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
freakish
adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
[syn: {capricious}]
2: characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
3: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another
like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a
freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes
of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: {bizarre},
{eccentric}, {freaky}, {flaky}, {outlandish}, {outre}]
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